In Praise of Lies

 

We are all abject liars. Yes, you too
It simply won’t do to be anything other
And me, too, through and through
We despise lies and liars. True?
Yet lies are needed every day
We re-lie on lies. No other way

Essential to our everyday survival
Wife: ‘how do you like my new hairdo?’
You: ‘that’s you to your boots, it really suits
 Frames your face, sets off your eyes.’
Thinks:  It stinks, set all a-tilt
 Looks like something a crow built

‘It looks really expensive’
She (Defensive)‘Bargain honey, just ninety bucks’
(It was an obscene two hundred and fifteen)
‘Great darling money well spent.’
Lying bugger what you really meant
Ninety bucks? Shucks! Way too much, god it sucks

If you told the truth, forsooth
You’d both hit the roof
So, being weak, we lie to get by.
A hundred lies a day leave our loving lips
From serious (I love you)
To shallow quips (You're great)

The quintessential essence of life is untruth
Break that rule and you’re a fool
You’ll be ostracised, driven away
And, god forfend,
Pay the ultimate price
Of being thought “not nice”